December, 1920 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE' 



721 



I tliiiik I am betraying no confidence to 

 send it." 



(11) A letter on the behavior of bees in 

 the fall brought this reply: "Sir — You're an 

 enemy and a fraud. The more I hear from 

 you the more I don 't know the little I thot 

 I knew." 



(12) Following the meeting of the Na- 

 tional Beekeepers' Association at Chicago 

 in 1910, the last meeting of beekeepers that 

 he attended, I received the following highly 

 l>rized and characteristic communication: 



"The Miller Clan, in conclave assembled, 

 after full discussion, voted unanimously and 

 enthusiastically that the cliief factor in mak- 

 ing the day of their visit to the Chicago 

 Convention a day to be remembered with 

 great pleasure was one Dr. E. F. Phillips, 

 and it was further voted that the under- 

 signed should notify the said Dr. Phillips of 

 this action. 



' ' In testimony whereof I hereby set my 

 hand and seal on this the 25th dav of Feb- 

 ruary, 1919. "C. C. Miller (seal)." 



(13) At one of the visits which I had at 

 Marengo the following incident arose, which 

 shows the way in which by the use of a few 

 words Doctor Miller could speak volumes. 

 His dislike for tobacco is well known to all 

 his readers, and on this occasion, while he 

 was showing me his garden, I stopped to 

 light a pipe, which called forth this: "Young 

 man, some day I want to talk to you about 

 the use of tobacco— but I haven't time just 

 now." 



One who can look back on 15 years of 

 friendship with a man like the author of these 

 brief extracts is indeed fortunate. There is 

 no better beekeeper than was Doctor Mil- 

 ler, and to this accomplishment he added 

 the striking talent of uniform happiness, 

 which pervaded everything which he touched. 

 The humor of his writings, especially of his 

 letters, was but the manifestation of his sat- 

 isfaction with life as he found it, bringing 

 happiness not only to himself but to all those 

 with whom he associated. 



Washington, D. C. 



BEEKEEPING IN FOREIGN LANDS 



PORTO EICO 

 is a very 

 sm a 1 1 spot 

 on the map. It 

 has many pecu- 

 liar beekeeping 

 problems, caused 

 by the difference 

 in altitude, rain- 

 fall, and the 

 trade winds, which blow most of the year. 

 To be exact, the Island is but 100 miles long 

 and 35 broad and contains about 6300 square 

 miles, with an altitude from sea level to over 

 3700 feet elevation. The hill country in the 

 center of the Island averages about 2000 

 feet above sea level. A cause of great varia- 

 tion in the flora is the difference in the rain- 



No Foul ^rood, No Feeding, No 



Winter Problem, and Few S'warms 



in '^orto Rico 



By Penn G. Snyder 



fall, most of 

 which is precipi- 

 tated by the 

 high hills, on the 

 northern water- 

 shed; which has 

 an annual pre- 

 c i p i t a t ion of 

 from 80 to 100 

 inches a year. 

 The south side receives about 40 inches only. 

 This causes a great difference in the luxuri- 

 ance of the vegetation, which naturally 

 means a difference in the honey flows. 



The rains act more or less as a stimulant 

 and cause new growth. The trees then shoot 

 a flush of blossoms, and, if the showers do 

 not continue during the honey flow, you se- 



An out-apiary in Porto Rico. 



